London.
Mr Gerald Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, will make a tour of the districts of Ireland, where the potato crops have been a partial failure, and a famine is threatened.
A serious outbreak of typhoid fever has occurred at Maidstone, Kent. It was caused by polluted water.
Since September 11th 800 oases have been reported.
Twenty-one deaths have occurred at Maidstone in connection with the outbreak of typhoid.
Lieutenant Colonel Horatio D. Davies, Alderman of Bishopsgate Ward and a member of the House of Commons for Chatham, has been chosen as the Lord Mayor-eleob of London for the ensuing year. The torpedo boat-destroyers Lynx and Thrasher went aßuore during a fog at Bodmin Point The Thrasher's steam pipe exploded, killing four stokors. Both vessels were subsequently floated. The Lynx proceeded to Devonport, and the Thrasher, which was badly damaged, was towed to Falmouth.
Mr Samuel Moss, Radical, has been elected by a majority of 2340 votes for the East Denbighshire seat in the House of Commons, which was rendered vacant by the death of the Right Hon. Sir George Osborne Morgan.
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Manawatu Herald, 2 October 1897, Page 2
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182London. Manawatu Herald, 2 October 1897, Page 2
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